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...evelopment of the [[steam engine]] propelled the [[Industrial Revolution]] in [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]] and the world. The ...lted in great social changes outside the political sphere, such as changes in mores, culture, philosophy or technology. Many have been global, while othe ...

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...-maps/preternatural| title = Preternatural {{!}} Encyclopedia.com}} </ref> In the [[early modern period]], the term was used by scientists to refer to ab ...s, and 'race' in the mirror of natural history in sixteenth-century Spain" in Sabrina Petra Ramet, ''Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropologica ...

...land]], [[Sweden]]: Iron—as a new material—initiated a dramatic revolution in technology, economy, society, warfare and politics.]] ...plication|application]] and [[diffusion]] typically cause an abrupt change in society. ...

...mputer]], the [[Internet]], [[medicine]], and [[artificial intelligence]], in particular [[generative pre-trained transformer]]s. ...an |date=2019 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-981-13-3714-7 |series=Advances in Japanese business and economics |location=Singapore |author-link=Hiroshi Sh ...

...he 13th century BC. China used bones and shells for religious inscriptions in the form of divinations.<ref name="Tsien" >{{cite book ...spreading the usage of print technology, which in turn led to an increase in the dissemination of secular printing and literacy as well as wielding an i ...

...ore commercial sports, are highly trained. Two of the most common animals in sport are horses and dogs. ...m humans. Some are solely between the animals while others use the animals in a lesser role. Most sports involve training, while some can also involve s ...

...ticles/leonard_irish_times_18feb05.html |archive-date=27 March 2009 |title=Europe: the new superpower |work=[[Irish Times]] |access-date=31 May 2015}}</ref>< ...ps://www.wsj.com/articles/blinken-to-address-u-s-rivalry-with-china-russia-in-senate-hearing-11611069439?mod=article_inline}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title ...

...nd 16th centuries|the earlier European Renaissance|Renaissance of the 12th century|other uses|Renaissance (disambiguation)}} ...oration|exploration]] and [[Science in the Renaissance|science]]. It began in the [[Republic of Florence|Republic of Florence]]. ...

[[File:Alter Strom.jpg|thumb|The Alter Strom, in the sea resort of [[Warnemünde]], Germany]] [[File:IMG RoyalCanalnrKinnegad5706w.jpg|thumb|The [[Royal Canal]] in [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]]] ...

...jpg|thumb|283x283px|[[Benjamin Franklin]] is one of the foremost polymaths in history. Franklin was a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, p ...e Polymathia tractatio: integri operis de studiis veterum}}) was published in 1603 by [[Johann von Wowern]], a Hamburg philosopher.<ref name="auto">{{cit ...

...the real [[political power]] is vested in the head of government. This is in contrast to a presidential system, which features a president who is usuall ...is also head of state, but is elected by and is answerable to parliament. In [[Bicameral legislature|bicameral]] parliaments, the head of government is ...

...ormation Overload}}</ref> and was further popularized by [[Alvin Toffler]] in his bestselling 1970 book ''[[Future Shock]].''<ref>{{cite web|url=https:// ...urnal|last=Roetzel|first=Peter Gordon|date=2019|title=Information overload in the information age: a review of the literature from business administratio ...

* [[Laboratory]] – facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. * [[Objectivity (science)|Objectivity]] – the idea that scientists, in attempting to uncover truths about the natural world, must aspire to elimin ...

...ows CSI 2018.jpg|thumb|Five Fellows of [[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]] in 2018.]] ...st=Merton|first=R. K.|title=The Normative Structure of Science|year=1942}} in {{cite book|last=Merton|first=Robert King|url=https://archive.org/details/s ...

...nnica>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Europe/The-Metal-Ages |title=The Metal Ages |publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica }}< ...there were no tin bronzes in [[West Asia]] before trading in bronze began in the [[3rd millennium BC]]. Worldwide, the Bronze Age generally followed the ...

...], or to the god [[Apollo]] himself, the inscription likely had its origin in a popular proverb. ...e's place in the social scale, or knowing oneself to be mortal. In the 4th century BC, however, the maxim was drastically re-interpreted by [[Plato]], who und ...

...tion |title=Management in the 1980s |url=http://hbr.org/1958/11/management-in-the-1980s |last1=Leavitt |first1=Harold J. |last2=Whisler |first2=Thomas L. ...s appropriate to describe the convergence of technologies with application in the vast field of data storage, retrieval, processing, and dissemination. T ...

...rform roles not just in manufacturing but also in the service sector{{snd}}in healthcare, for example.]] ...hine compressed and decoded thousands of man-years worth of encrypted data in a matter of hours. A contemporary example of technological unemployment is ...

...|automobiles]], [[boat]]s and [[airplane]]s; [[Home appliance|appliances]] in the home and office, including computers, building [[air handler|air handli ...dieval French, and is adopted from the French into English in the mid-16th century. ...